Commercial for Drawing Animals With Numbers

Watch out Pixar! My animation is going to just blow you away. So I'm not an animator, but I did create a really cool book teaching kids how to draw sea animals using numbers. This book was really fun to create. Each page has facts about the animals, a rating system to give the reader an idea of difficulty and in the back of the book are the rough sketches that didn't make the drawing steps.

The book comes out APRIL 16th, but you can pre-order your copy today!

Animated commercial

I am working on an animated commercial for my brand new book Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers(coming out on April 16th.) You can see the rough animation now on my new blog
Harptoons Publishing. I hope to have the commercial done this weekend.

Star Wars Comic

Star Wars Comic Strip

Happy St. Patricks Day

The Harptoons Blog

I have my new blog up and running now. Well, it's not really a new blog but a merging of two other blogs. I took my school visits blog and smashed it with my Drawing Animals With Numbers blog. Now I have the Harptoons Publishing blog!

The Harptoons Publishing blog will have drawing videos, info about my new books and photos and info about my school visits. So feel free to pop on over and take a look.
-Steve

Battle: Los Angelas

I saw Battle: Los Angeles this weekend and I thought it was great. I know some might say it lacked plot, but that was the best part. The story line was simple and to the point. Aliens attack America, American Marines fight back and kick their butts.

All other invader movies make the military seem useless to stop them. Instead some regular citizen (usually the nerdy weakling scientist) has the plan to defeat the aliens. The only problem is the nerd can't convince the head strong military leaders that his plan will work. The nerdy scientist somehow get's behind the scenes convinces some low ranking military guy that his plan will work. The nerd saves the day, the low ranking military guy looks smart for refusing to listen to orders and military leadership gets egg on it's face.

Not this movie. Battle: Los Angeles gets you involved in the ordinary lives of the Marines you will follow into battle. Some have seen some really bad action in Iraq and other places around the world. When they arrive on the scene of the alien invasion you can see in their faces this is worst than any war they have ever been involved in.

If I have one gripe about the movie (and this is a really small one) I would have liked to see more of the aliens coming ashore and taking out the city. Instead the director makes us wait awhile before we actually see an alien. I'm sure this was intentional and keeps you impatiently waiting for that very moment.

I liked how the aliens didn't have laser weapons or force fields. They seemed to use similar ballistic weapons as here on Earth and they are terrible shots. My guess is that adjusting to the gravity of a new planet had something to do with that. Now the design of the aliens isn't all that interesting, especially when compared to the aliens in District 9. These dudes look like jelly fish with metal stuck all over them. This movie is just like Black Hawk down only the enemies are aliens and the setting is LA.

Battle: Los Angeles really worked for me. They kept it serious and stayed away from the corny jokes, one liners or campy interaction with the aliens. Also they didn't try to wedge in some moral issue or drive home some point. It's real simple a Marine never quits and aliens better not try to come here and take our water.

The proofs for Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers

Here are the proofs for my new book Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers. These look good to me so I will sign off on them, pay the remaining balance I owe and then it's time to print 7,000 copies of my brand new book.

Things have been moving so fast with my new books that I recently had to rent storage space to house my three book titles. I am also happy to announce that I am almost out of my first book Drawing Animals With Numbers. to sell 5,000 books in less than a year by yourself is not easy, but it was fun. Don't worry I will be printing more Drawing Animals With Numbers books soon.

Harptoons.com (NEW)

Here is my brand new website where you can watch "How to draw videos." The videos are all based on my two new books Drawing Animals With Numbers and Drawing MOnsters With Letters. Now The site is still a work in progress, but feel free to visit and see what I have so far.

www.harptoons.com

invited to the Buckeye Book Fair!

Yeah, I was invited to the Buckeye Book Fair. Save the date, Saturday November 5th 2011 in Wooster Ohio. This is the 24th Buckeye Book Fair and I have always wanted to be apart of this event and was honored to get an invite. Their website is www.buckeyebookfair.com. I will see you there.

Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers

Sorry for the lack of posts, but I have been crazy busy. First, I have my new book that I just sent to the printer Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers. I am really excited about this book. Not only does it teach how to draw the animals in easy to follow steps, but it also has facts about each animal in the book. I have also been visiting schools all over Ohio. Luckily not one of my events has been canceled due to weather, but it's been close. The kids and teachers are really enjoying my drawing books and having a great time drawing with me. Then I have my freelance illustration work that has been really busy. I have six books I am working on right now, 5 puzzles and a bunch of other projects. The last thing I am working on is my new website www.harptoons.com. A work in progress to say the least. This website is going to have how to draw videos for kids, online school visits, activities to download and much more. This is a work in progress so feel free to take a look at it, just keep in mind that it is still not finished. I will make sure to post updates for pre sales of Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers as well as some sneak peaks of the book.

Thanks,
Steve

Coming Soon!

Here is the first glimpse of my newest book Drawing Sea Animals With Numbers!
After the success of Drawing Animals With Numbers and Drawing Monsters With Letters comes the latest and greatest book. After a school visit this fall I was inspired to do another drawing book using numbers, but I also wanted to have some animals facts in the book. I thought how cool would it be to learn a few facts about each animal while learning how to draw them.

I just sent the book to the printer so I don't have a solid release date, but I will be sure to let everyone know when I find out.